Weight of Landmarks & Structures: From Lightest to Heaviest
Total weights of famous structures from official sites, national park services or published engineering estimates. Landmarks without an official or scholarly figure are not listed.
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- the Great Pyramid of Giza6,400,000,000 kg
Khufu's pyramid as built, including core and casing masonry; a published scholarly estimate rather than a measurement
- the Liberty Bell943 kg
bronze bell cast by Pass and Stow in Philadelphia in 1753; weight as given by the National Park Service for the bell at the time it was ordered
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Preset: lightest (the Liberty Bell) vs heaviest (the Great Pyramid of Giza) in this category.
Landmarks & Structures weight table (8)
| Weight | Condition | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| the Liberty Bell | 943 kg (2,080 lb) | Typical | bronze bell cast by Pass and Stow in Philadelphia in 1753; weight as given by the National Park Service for the bell at the time it was ordered |
| Big Ben, the Great Bell | 13.7 t (15.1 US tons) | Typical | the Great (hour) bell of Elizabeth Tower, Westminster, as published in the UK Parliament's facts and figures for Big Ben |
| Cloud Gate, the Bean | 99.8 t (110 US tons) | Typical | stainless-steel sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago; 110 tons as published by the City of Chicago (US short tons) |
| the Statue of Liberty | 279 t (308 US tons) | Typical | copper skin plus internal iron framework (616,000 lb in total); the 54,000,000 lb concrete foundation under the pedestal is excluded from the typical value |
| the Eiffel Tower | 10,100 t (11,100 US tons) | Typical | official figures published by the tower operator: 7,300 t of metal frame, 10,100 t total including the lifts, shops and antennae (French metric tonnes) |
| the Empire State Building | 331,000 t (365,000 US tons) | Typical | completed 1931, as published on the building's official site: approximately 365,000 US tons for the whole structure |
| the Golden Gate Bridge | 811,500 t (894,500 US tons) | Exact | total weight of the bridge including anchorages and approaches as built in 1937; the bridge structure alone, excluding anchorages and approaches, weighed 419,800 tons (380,800,000 kg) after the 1986 redecking |
| the Great Pyramid of Giza | 6,400,000 t (7,050,000 US tons) | Estimate | Khufu's pyramid as built, including core and casing masonry; a published scholarly estimate rather than a measurement |
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